- I'm going to show you guys a couple different techniques
of handling, kind of, aggro snakes, right?
Animals that are defensive
and Titan is gonna be my first guy right here.
You can see he is definitely an aggro snake.
He's definitely following me around.
If I get too close, he's gonna take a pop at me for sure.
And you might ask, like, why am I so concerned
about getting bit by a snake like Titan.
Whoa!
He got my pants right there, guys.
I mean, that's how close it is.
The animal is pretty quick,
a pretty heavy duty fight.
Now the idea is, is that obviously
this way is not the way you want to be, right?
You don't want to be this side of him at all
because he's facing right at me, right?
Come on, oh!
And you don't want to be in a position
where you're gonna get bit straight on.
So the idea is somehow you got to get to that back side,
and it's kind of a little bit difficult
'cause he's following me around.
But let's see if I can get like this.
And now when I pick him up, what you want to do
is you always want to spin around
where he's the other way, right?
So if he's coming at you,
what you do is you spin the other way.
See how he starts to come back around?
Now I can spin.
And that's a spin move
that it's really something.
Uh-oh, he's got me good.
Oh, all right.
We're still doing good.
As long as he's going away from me, I'm okay.
It's when he starts coming back at me,
that's when you have to be careful.
So again, if you're out in the wild,
catching a wild-caught snake,
Woo!
Look at this guy.
See, I'm just kind of spinning away from him.
If I continue to spin away, he can't get me, right?
So I want his head to be the other way,
but I tell you what, that is one aggro snake there.
Whoa!
And if you can just continue to do that, see?
I spin around now he's on the other side.
Whoa!
Spin the other way, spin the other way.
And we're okay.
And hopefully the idea is maybe you wear them out
just a little bit,
and then he'll actually mellow out for ya.
This snake is a sketch snake, for sure.
Okay, come on, boy, come on, boy.
Now it's a little bit easier to handle them.
And that is a technique that I use on all of the animals,
including Lucy, when she gets a little aggro on me.
You guys haven't seen Titan in a while,
but he's still doing really well.
He's just definitely not an animal you want to handle.
There's no--
of course a titanium.
And he's the dad to the babies that we bred to Lucy.
And I tell you what,
what an absolutely gorgeous snake it is.
I just wish it had a better attitude, for sure.
So, that is technique number one.
Now of course, when you're talking about an Amazon tree boa,
there's a little bit of a different technique
when it comes to that and that's distraction, right?
So if I can actually wiggle my hand around,
it'll stay away from my face.
So it won't even think about my face.
But look if I stopped doing this, what's it do?
It immediately starts turning towards me.
And it's thinking about over here
and, of course, I don't want that to happen
so you can actually distract the snake.
Now, granted, I don't think that it's a great idea
to be handling like the most aggressive snakes.
And again, they're not really aggressive,
they're defensive, right?
You know, he's basically just saying,
"Hey, listen, stay away.
I don't want you to be close to me
and I'm going to strike at you
and tell you actually stay away."
But the truth is, is that you'll, even when that happens,
these are the techniques that I use.
With reticulated pythons and bigger snakes like that,
you use that spinning technique to get 'em away.
Doesn't really work as much with an Amazon tree boa
so what I do is I just use that distraction.
That way I can talk to you guys
and I can basically just have him striking
and it's no big deal, right?
He always just misses me and that's all,
you know, no big deal.
I've done this so many times, it's that thing.
So again, distraction helps a lot too
with certain animals and he's got quite the strike range
and I can get pretty darn close to him, right?
Because I know it so well.
And you know, listen, it's just the way it goes, you know?
And you know, you learn how to read snakes.
The thing is, you can read animals, too.
If a snake like an reticulated python
has his tongue stuck out like gi-gi-gi-gi-gi-gi-gi-gi.
That usually means bad news.
With this animal,
you just kind of read like when it's ready to actually jump,
and it'll actually jump through and you've got to just get
your hand away or whatever is in the way.
And I can just control him this way.
So again,
reading snakes and using techniques like this will keep you
from getting bit.
I know I show feeding the Boelen's pythons a lot,
but I tell you what, I love Bugatti so much.
It's become such an amazing animal.
And again,
it was so timid when it was young and kind of hard to eat.
It would never eat in front of people.
Now that it's just taken food out of my hand.
I mean, it's amazing.
It's again, one of my dream animals, I mean,
one of the rarer pythons on the planet and it's just so cool
to have one, not only here,
but on display reptant where people can see it and
it's doing so well.
So I'm just so excited.
Remember I was really worried about bringing it over and
having it stress out, not eat.
It went the other way.
It actually became more brazen.
And now will take food right out of my hand.
That is a gorgeous snake.
Remember that eight gene animal that actually hatched out.
That's a world first.
Well, it's actually out of the egg and looking absolutely
incredible.
This animal is pretty cool here too.
This is actually just a pastel.
It's a cinnamon, it's a spider and it is an orange dream.
It looks just kind of interesting, you know,
it's a cool animal,
but that isn't a world's first by any stretch.
I'm sure other people have done it.
But this one is pretty cool here.
This is like a super pastel.
It's an Echis, it's a Lessor,
it's a Bangor, it's an Orange Dream.
It's a fire.
And possibly a couple other things.
The only thing that this one was missing in the actual
clutch that had eight or nine gene potential was actually
the Cinny gene didn't come through.
Other than that,
we had all the other genes.
That is an absolute ripper of an animal.
Can't wait till this actually raises up.
'Cause I'll probably keep it 'cause it's just so darn cool.
And like I'd mentioned, you know,
when you get into animals like this,
you can't really guarantee that all those genes are in it.
I can only guess and say, I think that it's Orange Dream.
I think that it's Bangor.
I think that it's this.
I think that it's that because it has all the traits, right.
But I, if I sold it,
I couldn't really sell it as those traits because I can't
guarantee those traits, right.
So what I'm going to do with this guy is just raise up.
'Cause it's such a special animal
and hopefully breed out and then we'll find out exactly
what's in it in a couple of years.
We got some special guests in the house today, boys.
I tell you what I'm excited about this.
Oh my God, these guys are--
look at these guys,
What's going on man?
Look at you guys.
- What's up man?
- Oh my gosh.
So of course we have Jason and we have Mac.
So these guys are, have been huge supporters
for us on the podcast.
Mac is one of our mods on the podcast.
Silver cashes up.
He's he's going to bring some piece of skill today, man.
He's bringing some piece of skills.
So we're excited about that.
It's good to have you guys in the house.
It's so awesome meeting you guys.
- We're stoked to be here.
- All right, cool, we're gonna have a good time.
All right guys, we're going to have fun.
Guess what guys? We got something.
They do make things bigger in Texas.
So this is actually a gift from Texas.
Do you know what this is, Laurie?
- I have no idea.
- I have no idea , well, we're gonna find out.
- I can guess from the box a picture of something.
- A picture of something?
I was hoping it was going to be some gold.
Okay so there's another box inside of a box.
- Oh!
You know what, these are the gifts I appreciate.
I would totally send someone a box in a box, in a box.
- Okay. What do we got it?
It's gonna fall. Ooh, this is cool.
Are you kidding me?
This is awesome. Hang on.
Let me cut this without cutting the actual canvas here.
Does it have a note who sent it?
All right.
We've got Casper, Lucy, Moomoo,
and I don't know who that is.
But that's actually pretty cool.
They actually morph in from skeleton obviously to Lucy to
Moomoo to Caspar.
So that is pretty cool.
So I guess M H.
Sorry that I don't have who sent this,
but thank you.
It's definitely a cool piece of art.
I like it.
Laurie,
I'm going to hang it right over on your side of the bed.
- Perfect.
- No, seriously, thank you so much.
That is absolutely amazing.
Continuing to making progress on the gecko room down here,
we put lighting in which we ended up going with some LED
lighting because we want to do natural plants in here.
So these are actually grow lights,
which are really cool so that it's not only looks good,
lit up,
but also that we can actually grow plants in here and stuff
like that.
'Cause we're going to go bioactive with everything.
So now here in the next couple of days,
I've been saying this for the last week or so, but I will,
I'll actually do the rock wall so that you can can't see any
of the two by fours.
Jessica has a ton of work to do when it comes to actually
fixing and seeming all this stuff,
actually doing all the enclosures again,
this is the one enclosures that she's done already.
That's kind of hanging out here.
You can see just spray down this morning,
the grow lights on here.
So all the plants can do really well.
Bioactive.
We'll get all the isopods and stuff like that in
there.
So gecko room is looking good.
Starting to get exciting, just putting the lights on,
just changes everything, right?
I mean, it's just all of a sudden, now it's like, wow,
this place is starting to look like an actual room.
Cannot wait to get them done and actually put the first
geckos in.
So this room is going to be absolutely epic and I can't wait
till it's done.
- I don't really want to tell you quite yet,
but I got a surprise for you, it's gonna be really,
really cool to see this, but wait, wait,
wait till you find out.
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- It's got a cool clutch that we're going to cut today.
The last of the pumpkin gene for the year, it's actually an
Echis Woma, and remember the pumpkin is a cinnamon pumpkin,
so we've got an Echis Woma, cinnamon pumpkin,
and we've got some gnarly looking eggs
I'm not gonna lie, you know,
not all eggs will perfectly pearly white
when they get to the end.
These guys look pretty, pretty rad here.
There's 2, 4, 6 eggs, but I bet you any money.
There are good healthy babies inside here.
So if you're ever incubating eggs and they kind of look like
this, don't get too stressed out about it.
I think they're going to be fine.
Let's go ahead and jump into egg number one.
Let's hope for some really beautiful babies.
I'm loving this combination.
And again,
that pumpkin gene has that beautiful orange color.
Then you mix it with that Echis and Cinny and now Woma,
let's see what we have.
Awe right off the rip,
we just got a Woma Ball Python.
I'll be honest with you.
There's a chance,
this could be a Pumpkin Woma because what's happening
with some of the genes is you don't see the orange coming
through,
but you see an interesting pattern mutation kind of coming
up.
With the Woma, this kind is an interesting looking Woma.
So until it hatches, I don't know,
could actually be a Pumpkin Woma,
which would be pretty cool.
Again, I just want to get this gene into as much stuff as
possible, right?
Let's move on to egg number two.
All right, but certainly I want to see that nice,
bright orange.
There's no doubt about that.
What do we got here?
Ooh, this one looks nice.
Woo. Yeah, baby.
That one looks beautiful.
So this looks like probably a Cinny, Echis, Pumpkin
gene right here.
'Cause that nice, beautiful orange is coming through.
That one looks like an absolute, that's what I was looking
for there, but we've actually already hatched these.
Now I'm hoping we get this mutation
with a Woma pattern into it.
So let's see, we still have three eggs to go.
And again,
we'll start mixing this next year into recessive mutations
like Pie and Clown and different things like that and seeing
what it does to those as well.
Let's see, what do we have?
What do we have here?
Wow.
I don't know what we have here.
It's really beautiful though.
This looks like maybe a
Cinny Pumpkin
with a lot of cool pattern to it.
I don't really know why it's got such wicked pattern.
It's definitely must have the Pumpkin gene definitely has
the Cinny gene, but I don't know why it's got that stripe.
And it's got that really beautiful kind of crazy pattern.
Absolutely amazing.
Two eggs to go.
And we've had a couple of pretty good bangers in here,
so let's see what this next egg has to go.
Come on baby, let's do it.
Let's go.
You can see this egg looks pretty gnarly, but again,
really not a problem.
Oop, this baby looks a little weird.
I'm not gonna lie to ya.
You can see right in there that the animal looks a little
bit goofy.
It looks like it might have a kink to be totally honest with
you.
But wow.
Look at this.
This is such a bummer guys because this is literally a
Cinny, Echis, Pumpkin Woma.
This is the all gene animal I was really hoping for.
And like I said, most of the time,
when you have kind of a weird looking egg like this,
the baby can be completely fine.
But in this case I have a feeling this baby's going to be
deformed.
What a bummer.
We hit the all gene I was really open to see,
but unfortunately I don't think this one is going to make it
guys. I don't know.
I'm not going to give up hope, but wow.
It is a beautiful animal.
So that just gives you an idea what the potential is of this
gene.
But yeah, this one doesn't it doesn't look too promising,
but you never know.
Unfortunately,
the last egg looks even worse than it snake.
So let's hope this baby is okay.
So let's just jump in and see where we got.
All right, come on.
Let's at least have a good healthy baby.
No matter what the genetics are.
Let's see what we got here.
All right.
The actual animal itself looks like it's okay.
And guys, I tell you what.
I think this is actually, this is,
I don't think I know,
this is actually the Cinny, Pumpkin, Echis, Woma.
So this is the animal that we were hoping for.
And this one looks like it's got pretty good,
I don't see any kinks in it or anything like that.
So we might get lucky on this one.
We'll wait until they hatch out, for sure.
So, hey, we ended up doing all right.
We had one that was a little bit of a disappointment.
Lots of bangers in this.
Last for the pumpkin gene for the year.
Next year, they start to go into recessive mutations.
- Everything's finally done.
The silicone and everything like that is dried,
we're ready to rock and roll.
Now here's the really, the really, really,
really interesting part is to put the crickets in here.
And I know a lot of you guys are probably thinking when
you're watching this, like Bruce, jeez dude,
you drew drilled those holes way too big.
The crickets are going to get out.
Now actually, that's actually kind of the point.
I do want them to actually be able to come out,
'cause the problem is, is like, we're going to,
when we set this up,
it's going to be there for at least 12 hours at a time.
So crickets being in a container for 12 hours, guys,
that's going to smell real bad.
So like,
so it is important that they're able to escape, if they,
if they really have to just in case the Greentree
Monitors don't actually try and get them out.
You know, 'cause then again,
they're not going to be looking for this unless they
actually really, really want it.
So that's, that's the whole point of this.
That's how it goes.
So like obviously as you can see, I put the stick in there.
So these guys are able to climb up.
And when these guys are up here on the thing,
they can actually get those,
get those little tweezers going for their fingers and reach
in there.
Snatch that bad boy out.
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- Now I want you guys to understand
that the vast majority of the animals,
as a matter of fact, here,
almost all the animals are super tame.
It's something I wanted to kind of go on and handling
something that's a little bit more aggro and it's even hard
to find here.
I'm going to be totally honest with you.
99.9% of our animals are so tame that you can't even get
them to strike, even if you wanted to.
Of course,
Titan has always been a little bit touchy that's it's not
here on display at the reptant is because it is definitely
a pistol as you saw.
And then Lucky is just a tree boa.
You know, tree boas are like the fish of the reptile world.
You put them in a tank, you look at them.
You don't mess with them and stuff like that.
The fact is I don't want you guys to think that snakes are
aggressive or defensive because the fact is is that almost
all of them are amazing.
And if you gain that trust with them,
almost all of them can be just as amazing as Jeffery.
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